Blizzard at E3 Coliseum with WoW Storytelling Panel

Blizzard will be part of the E3 Coliseum with a panel on June 13th devoted to storytelling in World of Warcraft. We'll learn how the team creates the Warcraft universe, as well as some insights into the current state of popular characters we know and love.\r\r"World of Warcraft Storytelling: Bringing a Robust Universe to Life Through Different Mediums" will take place at 11:30 am (Pacific) on Wednesday, June 13th, and will be streamed on Facebook live. The panel participants are Steve Danuser (Sr. Narrative Designer), Terran Gregory (Project Director - Cinematics), and Christie Golden (Sr. Writer).\r\rJoin members of the World of Warcraft team as they break down the tricks to bringing the World of Warcraft universe alive through story. From books, to video, to in-game storytelling, the rich narrative of WoW unfolds for fans across multiple forms of media as the team expands on the personalities that fans have come to care about. Whether you are for the Alliance, or for the Horde, stop by to get insight on the story that is still wowing people even after 14 years.\r\rIn recent years, Blizzard has been making a conscious effort to tie the storylines between expansions together and provide more cinematics and cutscenes for crucial moments in the story. Legion saw the rise of an ambitious storytelling project tracking 12 different stories across Class Order Halls, capped off by storylines introducing each new Allied Race. Now in Battle for Azeroth, we're unravelling the unity forged by battling against the Legion, getting two high-stakes storylines for the Alliance and Horde, which are both intended to make the player sympathize with their faction, as well as many factions and plot points from old expansions interwoven into the current conflict.\r\rYesterday Blizzard published "Three Sisters", an emotional look into the reunion of the three Windrunner sisters after decades apart. In addition to examining the family dynamics, this comic also propels other plotlines forward. Notably, Alleria's training with the Void in Patch 7.3 is not a neat detail regulated to Legion, as may have occurred had this taken place in earlier WoW expansions. Instead, the comic shows how Alleria struggles to keep the Void contained as she constantly hears dark whispers in her head, with hints pointing towards a conflict between the Void and Undeath, or Alleria losing control of the Void, in a future patch.\r\rEarlier in the month, Blizzard launched comics on Jaina and Magni which also addressed themes of family, loyalty, and tragedy as well as references to important events in WoW's past.\r\rWe've also seen more interaction and continuity between storytelling mediums. The Patch 7.3.5 epilogue cinematics directly relate to events at the start of the novel Before the Storm, and Christie Golden, a long-time writer of Blizzard novels who recently became an employee, worked with Terran Gregory and the cinematics team on the project.\r\rThe next few months are shaping up to be a narrative rollercoaster as well with the release of Before the Storm on June 12th, the addition of the novellas Elegy and A Good War to the Battle for Azeroth Collector's Edition, and the shocking events of the Burning of Teldrassil and Battle for Lordaeron. All this before Battle for Azeroth even begins--there's even more plot twists in store once we reach Kul Tiras and Zandalar, helping powerful, yet weakened empires.\r\rYou can keep track of the currently-revealed Battle for Azeroth story in our Battle for Azeroth Lore Overview.

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Commento di Ghouls

Commento di strgic

I hope there is a Q&A afterwards, and someone asks them why they butchered their lore so badly and why are they making Anduin in a literal interpretation of a MARY SUE...

Commento di alunwifaire

on 2018-06-06T15:27:18-05:00

Good. They have a LOT of explaining to do.\r\rhaha yes yes. Yes they do :P

Commento di Ryneon

on 2018-06-06T15:32:18-05:00

Put your seatbelts back on and brace for impact.

Commento di 68doc

on 2018-06-06T15:38:43-05:00

Going to be nothing but people crying about "High Elves" when they should really be asking about Wrathion.

Commento di jimbobaus

on 2018-06-06T15:38:47-05:00

I hope there is a Q&A afterwards, and someone asks them why they butchered their lore so badly and why are they making Anduin in a literal interpretation of a MARY SUE...\r\rThere is always one.....

Commento di Agniwolf

on 2018-06-06T16:01:21-05:00

Going to be nothing but people crying about "High Elves" when they should really be asking about Wrathion.\r\rwhich is really sad, those people paranoia jus takes away from seriousness of other questions like why is the gcd reform really needed for the health of the game\r\ror what is happening with the identity of the factions\r\rthe purpose of presenting allied races at this point\r\rif the game will dial down on the cosmic threats for the sake of preserving space of narrative\r\rbut i can envision, blizz saying no and the others start to try force them with their headcanons

Commento di MsWeatherwax

on 2018-06-06T16:23:01-05:00

Good. They have a LOT of explaining to do.\r\rWhich they won't. \r\rIt's gonna be all "High Elves", pigs will fly before this writing team is ever held accountable for turning WoW into the laughingstock of the gaming history.

Commento di Draccy

on 2018-06-06T16:24:45-05:00

Oh jeez, they should probably skip a Q&A.No one is going to ask the right questions.

Good. They have a LOT of explaining to do.

Which they won't.

It's gonna be all "High Elves", pigs will fly before this writing team is ever held accountable for turning WoW into the laughingstock of the gaming history.

Laughingstock of gaming history? That's cute.

Commento di Skrauhg

on 2018-06-06T16:25:36-05:00

I hope there is a Q&A afterwards, and someone asks them why they butchered their lore so badly and why are they making Anduin in a literal interpretation of a MARY SUE...\r\rJust wondering, but how exactly is he a Mary Sue? Aside from the one time he called to the light in the Battle for Lordaeron, he's not done anything so outlandishly powerful, and he's just been performing his role as High King: talking to allies, leading armies, consulting advisors and finding peace within himself.

Commento di Philosophercat

on 2018-06-06T16:34:01-05:00

I hope there is a Q&A afterwards, and someone asks them why they butchered their lore so badly and why are they making Anduin in a literal interpretation of a MARY SUE...

Just wondering, but how exactly is he a Mary Sue? Aside from the one time he called to the light in the Battle for Lordaeron, he's not done anything so outlandishly powerful, and he's just been performing his role as High King: talking to allies, leading armies, consulting advisors and finding peace within himself.

This, basically. Mind, he's also got chronic pain from that bell fiasco Velen says he'll have even into old age. And, I mean, this is Warcraft... where every lore character is ridiculously OP. When Anduin ends up soloing an army like Varian did in Wolfheart, then we can talk. lol. (Seriously, the Alliance army was like "uh... I guess we should follow him?" and just trailed behind him.).

If we're talking moral flaws, I'm always disappointed when our fandom assesses character flaws by body count. His core ideals are in direct opposition to what he has to do. It's inevitable that he will have to betray his ideals, and self-identity, or take the selfish option and insist on peace even if it means sacrificing his own people. That, btw, is the real evil of the Alliance, if you look at the whole Huojin\/Tushui thing. It's that they fail to act when it's required because they refuse to see morality as changing. Innocent people will die because of him.

Commento di strgic

on 2018-06-06T16:36:38-05:00

I hope there is a Q&A afterwards, and someone asks them why they butchered their lore so badly and why are they making Anduin in a literal interpretation of a MARY SUE...\r\rJust wondering, but how exactly is he a Mary Sue? Aside from the one time he called to the light in the Battle for Lordaeron, he's not done anything so outlandishly powerful, and he's just been performing his role as High King: talking to allies, leading armies, consulting advisors and finding peace within himself.\r\rI don't know, how about that "Human potential" BS?

Commento di Agentkillerlee

on 2018-06-06T17:11:13-05:00

Good. They have a LOT of explaining to do.\r\rWhich they won't. \r\rIt's gonna be all "High Elves", pigs will fly before this writing team is ever held accountable for turning WoW into the \r\rlaughing stock of the gaming history.\r\r\rAre you okay? lmao. Its not even close, but keep thinking that.

Commento di Skrauhg

on 2018-06-06T17:45:31-05:00

I hope there is a Q&A afterwards, and someone asks them why they butchered their lore so badly and why are they making Anduin in a literal interpretation of a MARY SUE...\r\rJust wondering, but how exactly is he a Mary Sue? Aside from the one time he called to the light in the Battle for Lordaeron, he's not done anything so outlandishly powerful, and he's just been performing his role as High King: talking to allies, leading armies, consulting advisors and finding peace within himself.\r\rI don't know, how about that "Human potential" BS?\r\rWhat exactly does that have to do with Anduin? And that quote is only an issue because people choose to make an issue out of it.

Commento di Deccius

on 2018-06-06T17:47:46-05:00

I can already imagine the answer to the kind of questions people would surely ask.\r\r"OH HEY HAHA, Horde seems pretty evil right now amirite? Don't worry though, it's actually all grey. Don't worry guys, one year into the expansion we'll turn it around and someone in Alliance will become the new satan. Oh Sylvannas is evil by the way."

Commento di omedon666

on 2018-06-06T17:49:37-05:00

I feel these panelists should prepare for the ol' SImpsons "Magic Xylophone" type questions.

Commento di ReallyAbigar

on 2018-06-06T19:19:15-05:00

Going to be nothing but people crying about "High Elves" when they should really be asking about Wrathion.\r\rwhich is really sad, those people paranoia jus takes away from seriousness of other questions like why is the gcd reform really needed for the health of the game\r\ror what is happening with the identity of the factions\r\rthe purpose of presenting allied races at this point\r\rif the game will dial down on the cosmic threats for the sake of preserving space of narrative\r\rbut i can envision, blizz saying no and the others start to try force them with their headcanons\r\rbolded part: obviously three people employed by blizzard to write the story and lore are not going to answer anything like this. they're not devs or producers.\r\rthey might answer the other questions though, and I really don't see why they wouldn't so long as they have an answer for it - things like "why are the allied races being presented now" might be something being decided by producers or something and have nothing to do with the lore at all, even if it seems that way

Commento di Lostelf

on 2018-06-06T19:21:26-05:00

Human potential.\rCrazy Sylvanas and her 'evil' Horde.\rAnduin the Mary Sue...\r\rBfA has a lot of narrative blunders that need explaining. Though sadly I fear those High Elf nuts will hijack the entire thing to beg for them to become an Allied Race.

Commento di TehLucario

on 2018-06-06T19:47:01-05:00

Human potential.\rCrazy Sylvanas and her 'evil' Horde.\rAnduin the Mary Sue...\r\rBfA has a lot of narrative blunders that need explaining. Though sadly I fear those High Elf nuts will hijack the entire thing to beg for them to become an Allied Race.\r\rLets see.\r\rMeaningless Phrase to create conflict.\rBlaming an entire faction on a single character.\rLack of analysis for a character to make you feel better about not choosing alliance.\r\rCome back with a better argument, k?

Commento di TehLucario

on 2018-06-06T19:48:49-05:00

This should be interesting. Lot of good stories in the game.\r\rOr are you all still butt hurt over the whole war thing that you refuse to look at all the zone stories they put time and effort into that are actually really cool? I'm going to assume that because y'all act like children sometimes.